Relocated from Doddington Moor. Reused as a cyst cover in the Bronze Age marks facing down.
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Relocated from West Liburn carved with a bronze tool.
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A cup and ring marked slab later reused as a cyst cover (marks facing down) inside the museum.
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Different view of same stone.
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Stone outside the Great North Museum.
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Buttony double cup and ring as I found it today (eventually)!
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Looking West towards the hillfort and cairn ( on the horizon) across the watershed over the top of a possibly modified natural boulder which seems to give an aiming point when crossing the boggy area at the highest (dryest) point. Some of the large grooves are visible from here with naked eye.
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More cup and groove marks that look snaky to me. The groove actually runs right down the slab.
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The Adderstone ( aka the horseshoe stone) .
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Two of the cup and channel marks on a slab covered in them. Interestingly water does not naturally follow these lines when allowed to overflow the cup mark.
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A badger hole in obvious use in the excavation scar of the barrow mound taken in summer 2024. It is an out laying burrow of a much larger sett system nearby.
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The “crown” of the stone showing bird guano and channels formed by water erosion. It was after a very dry spell but you can imagine the pools of weak acidic water forming in the wet and overflowing.
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View from NEish looking to rear of mound. Excavation scar visible.
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Rear view of standing stone, natural weathering from when it was horizontal in a nearby out crop has been added to by 2000 + years of vertical water and wind erosion aided by the guano that accumulates in the hollows on the top forming an acidic solution. Large birds are often seen perching on the stone.
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Close up of the standing stone, oringinally one of a pair.
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This is in the valley between the crag and the trig point hill a little to the west of this panel, on top of one of the long flattish slabs of rock that emerge from the boggy watershed. It is very indistinct but definitely there. I will return with water at some point to reveal it better.
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While looking for ( and not finding) these panels, I found these cup marks, I’m pretty good at spotting the natural erosion here and these are too close together and in a non exposed place surrounded by bare rocks so I’m saying they are man made.
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The highest bank maybe 3’ (1m) showing best it can until bracken and birches are gone. Ten years ago it was not like this.
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Winter view of what can be seen under the braken and trees which normally obscure it.
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Had another stroll past today. It’s a Bronze Age barrow with one standing stone ( another removed in past) to the SW. In a field with ample considerate parking nearby but field is full of pregnant sheep just now, usually the farmer will ok a walk to it if you’re nice. It was excavated in the long past, but not professionally, and a body and a few artifacts found.A crater marks the dig. It has a thriving badger sett burrowing into it and has soil creep/slip erosion. A lot else to see nearby.
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